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I'll admit this feature should have definitely been opt-in. But when the update came out there was a big pop-up on your screen when you logged in. Where you just turned all of this off and hit save. It is super easy to disable.
The sharing what I watch with friends part is dumb. But it is pretty cool how you can recommend stuff to friends.
I got the pop up. I disabled it. But I just got an email from Plex telling me everything my family member watched in the last week. This is complete shit!!
You opted out, but they didn't
Which is still an issue. "Opting-out" means opting-out not halfway opting-in.
It's not perfect, but at least you're only seeing others' activity.
There's hopefully a "discover" email notification you can disable. I haven't been bothered enough to check yet. Worst case, it could be filtered out pretty easily.
I thought I was opting out of my account and my server. But nope, Plex is scraping up everything that's on my server and shipping it in an email to other people including me.
I'm not following.
What popup? I never got one.
I followed the instructions and opted out yet I'm still seeing what my users watched along with getting emails listing the same. I'm certain none of my users are interested in this and likely skipped through the pop-up without reading/comprehending it.
I think that as the server owner it's a given that you'll be able to see what people watch.
Having the ability to see it versus having it pushed in your face in the app and in weekly emails are two completely separate things.
Yeah, considering how in-your-face this popup was, I can't really take someone seriously when they just say that it was "opt-out"...
Like, I get it on a technicality. But c'mon.
I didn’t get any popup, many others haven’t either.